Battered women and their families; intervention strategies and treatment programs, 3d ed.9780826145925 Battered women and their families; intervention strategies and treatment programs, 3d ed. Ed. by Albert R. Roberts. Springer Publishing Co. 2007 626 pages $65.00 Hardcover Springer series on family violence; v.12 HV699 Written for social workers, health care professionals, and others in contact with domestic abuse victims, 24 integrated chapters offer insight into why women are battered and killed by domestic partners and suggest the best methods for intervention. Updated throughout, this third edition includes new chapters on same-sex violence, children in shelters, immigrant battered women, and elder mistreatment mis·treat tr.v. mis·treat·ed, mis·treat·ing, mis·treats To treat roughly or wrongly. See Synonyms at abuse. mis·treat , along with coverage of stages of change, crisis intervention crisis intervention Psychiatry The counseling of a person suffering from a stressful life event–eg, AIDS, cancer, death, divorce, by providing mental and moral support. See Hotline. , time-limited treatment, stress-crisis, community response, child maltreatment child maltreatment '…intentional harm or threat of harm to a child by someone acting in the role of a caretaker, for even a short time…Categories Physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect…', the last being most common. , intervention for adolescents, rules governing health care professionals in the US and UK, the roles of emergency room workers, Roberts's seven-stage crisis intervention model and the ecological nested model, conjoint con·joint adj. 1. Joined together; combined: "social order and prosperity, the conjoint aims of government" John K. Fairbank. 2. therapy, violence against women with developmental disabilities developmental disabilities (DD), n.pl the pathologic conditions that have their origin in the embryology and growth and development of an individual. DDs usually appear clinically before 18 years of age. , substance abuse, poverty, and issues specific to those within the Venezuelan, Chinese, and Puerto Rican communities. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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